Poetry

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Raucous Sounds: City Lights Pocket Poets at 60
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, features radical poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
John TytellJul 3, 2015
- Poetry
The Holy City: Charleston, A Remembrance
Poet DéLana R.A. Dameron responds to the Charleston shooting.
DéLana R.A. DameronJun 19, 2015
- Poetry
Enigmatic Interiors: On Love, Death, Divorce, and Michael White’s New “Travels in Vermeer”
The book is deceptive … a travel book that is really an art book; an art book that is really about love, death, drinking, and other kinds of grief.
Robert Anthony SiegelJun 19, 2015
The Denunciation of Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place has been doing challenging work on racism, or “racist work,” depending on whom you ask, for years.
Kim CalderJun 14, 2015
- Poetry
Life Please Explain
Maya C. Popa interviews Deborah Landau.
Maya C. PopaJun 11, 2015
- Poetry
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry
Traversing the tense, torqued territory between orient and occident, indigenous and empirical, history and amnesia...language makes and unmakes.
Lisa Russ SpaarJun 10, 2015
- Poetry
Wild Minds, Only in Fragments
Poet Amy Gerstler gathers meaning from shards of chaos. Her new collection, "Scattered at Sea," is sorely needed in this particular poetic and political moment.
Wendy WillisJun 3, 2015
- Poetry
Un Coup d’idées: A New Translation of Mallarmé’s “A Roll of the Dice”
Can Stéphane Mallarmé and the greatest literary gamble of the 1890s still look risky and radical to 21st-century readers?
Jeremy GlazierJun 1, 2015
- Poetry
A Wandering Will: Mary Reid Kelley Discusses Swinburne’s “Pasiphae”
Mary Reid Kelley's nine-minute melodrama, for which Swinburne’s text serves as the screenplay, is the second in a trilogy of films based loosely on the story of the Minotaur (the monstrous fruit of Pasiphae’s lust), made in collaboration with artist Patrick Kelley.
James CahillMay 25, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Life Was Fiction in Disguise
How James Merrill went from a poetic "finical interior decorator" to one of the most accomplished verse technicians of the 20th century.
Calista McRaeMay 23, 2015
- Biography & Autobiography
- Poetry
Ready to Sing: Angie Estes’s Enchantée
Christopher Spaide on Angie Estes's "Enchantée."
Christopher SpaideMay 22, 2015
- Poetry
A Global Poetry for Troubled Times
"The Secret of Hoa Sen" is a dark, gritty, sentimental collection from one of Vietnam's foremost contemporary poets, Nguyen Phan Que Mai.
Madeleine KruhlyMay 18, 2015
- Poetry